Learning outcomes |
- Understand the main concepts associated with innovation and explore the main types of innovation; - Identify the main key success factors and the main barriers to innovation; - Approach innovation from a systemic perspective, whether sectoral, regional or national; - Address the European Innovation Scorecard; - Understand the concepts of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in their various approaches and meanings; - Understand the various factors affecting business processes, including the entrepreneur, the institution and the context; - Understand the various stages of the business process: from the recognition of the opportunity and the creation of the company, through growth, until the eventual withdrawal from the business; - Understand the specificities of particular forms of entrepreneurship, namely female, ethnic, social, entrepreneurial and informal entrepreneurship.
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Main Bibliography |
Dahlander, L. and Gann, D. (2010) “How Open is Innovation?”, Research Policy, 39, 699-709. Scott L. Newbert, S., Gopalakrishnan, S. and Kirchhoff, B. (2008) “Looking beyond resources: Exploring the importance of entrepreneurship to firm-level competitive advantage in technologically intensive industries”, Technovation, 28, 6-19. Van de Vrande, V., de Jong J. P., Vanhaverbeke, W., Rochemont, M. (2009) “Open Innovation in SMEs: Trends, Motives and Management Challenges”, Technovation, 29, 423–437. Damanpour, F. and Wischnevsky, D. (2006) “Research on innovation in organizations: Distinguishing innovation-generating from innovation-adopting organizations”, Journal of. Engineering and Technology. Management, 23, 269–291.
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